The rows of rice in supermarkets can be intimidating. Where once bags and boxes of white, long grain rice - some of it parboiled and ready to go - dominated the shelves, today's shopper is thrust into...

Occupation: I'm a work-at-home mom. I'm a health advocate for Shaklee Corporation. They've helped me overcome some health issues, and now I'm paying it forward by helping other families. It's very...

Sonya Huber likes to "blurt things out," and Elizabeth Hilts enjoys imagining "the what ifs," she said. Both women were among the authors who participated in February's Connecticut Authors Reading Ser...

This winter is confusing me, no end. Within the matter of three days I've needed sunscreen on my nose, shaken snow out of my paws, and been forced to dash about in the pouring rain. What does Mother N...

For roughly an hour, Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, hosted a Community Forum on Wednesday, February 24, at Newtown High School to discuss the district's long-term plans for education ...

March 1, 1991 There certainly is no shortage of open space in this big town. But there has been little promotion on how the public can take advantage of it. Two residents, Mary Mitchell and Al Go...

BOSTON — Newtown Bee Editor Curtiss Clark became one of the newest members of the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame this year when he and five others were celebrated on February 19. Friends, colleagu...

MONROE - "Life is pandemonium" and it is on uproarious display, with all its quirks, struggles and emotions, in Two Planks Theater Company's wonderful production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell...

NEW MILFORD - The art, angst and overwrought process of writing is on display to comedic perfection at TheatreWorks New Milford. Under the spot-on direction of Alicia Dempster, Theresa Rebeck's Semina...

NEW HAVEN - Fifty years ago, two friends who would could only be described as institutions in the world of bluegrass played their first gigs together. A half-century later, Del McCoury and Dav...